Intel Core i9-11900K vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i9 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8281 points

17% slightly better overall score

7028 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10754 points

28% slightly better gaming score

8379 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7475 points

12% slightly better multitasking score

6623 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7270 points

11% slightly better heavy workload score

6517 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

212.26 points

28% slightly higher Blender score

164.73 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

15519 points

20% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

12929 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11108 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

9396 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2402 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

2142 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

6% slightly higher clock speed

3.30 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.3 GHz

3% slightly higher turbo speed

5.1 GHz

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

8 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

Identical

16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

136th of 1,089

191st of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i9

Ryzen 7 PRO

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February

2023 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR5 (FP7r2)

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i9-11900K vs Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-11900K performs better than the Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-11900K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U. Also, the Core i9-11900K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U has more L2 cache than the Core i9-11900K. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i9-11900K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.